Adrift
By Tristan Jones
272 pp. 1992. Paperback. $14.95ISBN 0 924486 30 9
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Emerging from the South American wilderness following the harrowing adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally made it home to Britain, where customs officials promptly impound his vessel – the tiny, nearly indestructible SEA DART – because he cannot pay the “import tax.” In his quest to liberate SEA DART, he takes any work he can find, whether it be stoking the boilers at Harrods', regaling TV talk-show viewers with wild stories, or skippering one-day “around the lighthouse” cruises in New York. Ultimately, Jones and SEA DART appear as the honored guests of an Explorers Club dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, then go on to “sail” triumphantly for three days through the streets of New York.
“…Tristan Jones at his best.” —WoodenBoat
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About the Author:
Legendary sailor Tristan Jones left school at the age of 14 to work on sailing barges and spent the rest of his life at sea – in the Royal Navy, as a delivery skipper, and as a daring seagoing adventurer travelling the world in search of new and ever greater challenges. He wrote 16 books.